Sharing today has become such a big deal in every aspect of life. We share information sometimes with out even really thinking about it. With all the advancements we have made in the world we are constantly sharing things we have learned, what we have done, and little things about our lives with the world around us. To share is to be human now, we live in a world of technology that is all about how we connect and interact with each other.
As someone that has always looked up to my mom, who is a kind of educator, and then most of my grade school teachers, I always thought it was interesting to see how each teacher in the same subject matter taught and to see if they ever overlapped ideas/activities. My teachers in grade school always would talk about how in another class, previous to theirs how a certain teacher would have taught, and how they would share each others ideas for when they would be giving us study advice. As a student looking forward to becoming a teacher, I think that teachers within a small and close school have a good idea of how they share. By talking to each other after school and constantly being able to shoot one another an email about something. I think that sharing via the web is important also, I am friends with some of my old teachers on Facebook and it really is a great way to see and share ideas about course work. Even though Facebook is a dead/dying social media it is a good place at least to start. But even then I think we should also stick to the face to face, and in class observations to learning and sharing with other teachers.In this article about why and how to share, it talks about how we can start branching out as educators to actually share among ourselves, Also, in the video with Dean Shareski, we see that just simply by sharing a simple idea from one school you can actually make a big impact in other districts/places. A simple idea can make a huge impact in other schools, this is a simple thing to do for educators. One of the best ways to share is a blog/twitter it gets information out there quickly and efficiently. A blog for a teacher can be helpful to others that are simply looking for new and different ideas.
Being part of a sports team and now going into my senior season I have become a leader on my team, it has become easy for me to get good ideas from googling ideas. I have joined several small online communities that are soccer related to see and share ideas that other people have about team bonding and idea's for how to make a team more connected. I even have resources around me such as the old seniors and even some of our coaches. I think that we should share via talking to each other and via the internet.
What I share is usually things that I either think are funny, informational, or something that I would like the world to acknowledge. For the most part I base what I share off of where I am sharing it.If I am on a more "mature" site/blog/media I will stick to informational or something that I feel that needs to be acknowledged. For instance I will only share my thoughts, ideas, plans for certain things on Instagram, a blog, or Facebook if it is something that needs recognition or is a good idea in a way of expressing how it could help another. I have several different twitter accounts for the idea of one is a more personal account that I sometimes use to tweet about "stupid" silly things, such as the other night I tweeted about oreos. But then I have another more "mature" account that I use just for the purpose of education and informational. I think for sharing if it is not offensive, rude, or derogatory towards someone it is okay to share. But that is also a tough situation for then people get to sharing things that could be taken that way. I stick to only sharing what I feel could be silly, an oreo tweet, informative, a blog about teens and technology, or could use acknowledgment, insta post about my little sister signing her NLI for college next year.
What not to share, that's a very fine line. We get mixed up in all these different aspects of life and how we should behave and then what we should share. Being an athlete you can get caught up in drama over maybe a lose and tweet something about the other team, or maybe just in everyday life drama you say something on a social media. We need to be careful of what we share, and how it can be taken. If you at all question whether you should share something or not, chances are you should not share it.
There are many aspects of what we do with students and how we help them. In a way with sharing what they have done can help them in the classroom to show the rest of the world what they have done and to show that the students are very much capable. But also in a slight way we can almost help those that make a mistake a way to correct it. The tools we have now to help students "off stage" can be very helpful but also if not use correctly they can be hurtful. I think we need to show kids what they do incorrectly with a comparison, and not show it to the world. Learning how to help a student more in a classroom is going to be very helpful compared to showing them what they did wrong with the world.
Sharing as I said earlier has become a way of life, as educators we live to share our thoughts, ideas, plans, and even our techniques. I think that we now sometimes get a little carried away with how we share things, which is not at all a bad thing but it isn't always the best way. Sharing I think can sometimes be more effective face to face, as you can see emotions on what maybe is a struggle or really great. In person it is also easier to show and navigate things but also it is more of a personal sharing experience. Online has now become a quicker way to share but not necessarily the best way to share in my mind.
Sharing everything as a teacher is like sharing everything as a toddler. That's how you make connections and learn from each other. With sharing you can see what you teaching methods other people have in common with you and if maybe by adjusting your style a little may be more effective. As a teacher to share everything is to become part of something even more, it is to show that you are looking to become a better educator and it shows that you have an idea that you think someone else may be able to use or even make better.
As a teacher I think it would be great to not only get other teachers involved but also the community around us to help out and give advice on how we can maybe improve.The community based around the school can have a lot of input on how we can best educate our kids, by starting a community based blog/website that the local parents and teachers can give input on what we should adjust with in our teaching ways. By giving everyone else a little more say in the educational world we could really brig a community more together than before.
In this age technology and sharing has become a norm with everyday life, we must change and evolve with the society in order to keep teaching such a big and important part of the kids. Using what we share and learn based off sharing is a great way to keep improving the educational world around us. It helps to boost good writing by knowing that the world can see what you say means you should be more aware of how you are writing. I do not think that everything should be a formal kind of writing as to share is to share what you feel, it is a way of expression and saying you can only share in a formal way is to say you can only express yourself if you sound like someone you may not be. But to keep sharing is an important part of teaching and everyday life.
The cost of sharing is priceless but the outcome can be great. Never stop sharing and keep expressing what you have a passion for when it comes to what you are sharing with the world!
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